EISA Partition ?? (IBM Machine)?
I have a IBM computer and windows xp.
now If I go in to the computer managment and then go to disk managment then it shows me list of harddrive partition.
and it shows me one extra partition which is not visible in mycomputer, basically this dive contains my windws and driver software for my PC.
THis drive does have any Letter assigned to it,
It just shows me this for this drive
Volume Status
IBM_SERVICE Healthy(EISA Configuration) ….. And other stuff which are common in all the other partition
Now, I want to access this drive because i have installed one more os on this pc and to installed the drive I need to access this drive.
Any body could help me, how i can do this
EISA partition is used by manufacturer (IBM) to store utilities. I assume the OEM partition is used as the ‘active’ partition and to install one more os on the pc even though the C: had much free space, it is looking at the OEM partition, which is full.
you can do the following:
1)First of all, use diskpart.exe – a command-line tool to change the active partition to C: (it’ also in XP)
2)This isn’t the whole solution, as now if you try and reboot the machine, you’ll get a "BOOTMGR is missing" error.
3)So you boot off the OS media (Vista DVD in this case).
4)Set the locale/keyboard settings and then choose ‘Repair your computer’.
5)It scans your disks for installs of Windows, then click ‘Next’
6)Then click on ‘Startup Repair’ – this figures out that BOOTMGR is missing and puts it in the right spot.
7)The boot manager should now be fixed and you can reboot successfully.
In the previous example the person was:
Installing Vista on a new Dell workstation.
This machine came configured with XP Home and an "OEM Recovery" partition. Installed Vista onto the main partition by booting from a DVD.
You’ve probably tried this but if you right click on the volume you will either have an option to "change the drive letter and paths" or not.
My system has a 47mb Master Boot Record on the first hard drive which I cannot mess with. You may be in the same boat. On the other hand, my son’s PC has a partition which is used for recovery that I can give a drive letter to and then access.